Newspaper-wrapper



(No maal.)

J. MCAONNELL.

' NEWSPAPER WRPPER Patented Jan. 12. 1897. Y

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN MCCONNELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

NEWSPAPER-WRAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,931, dated January12, 189'?.

Application filed December 3, 1895. Serial No. 570,891. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Y Be it known that I, JOHN MCCONNELL, of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county,Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Envelops andPaper-Wrappers; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full,

' clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to envelops and wrappers for magazines or articlesto be folded and inclosed therein; and it consists in providing theenvelop or wrapper with an opening so arranged that when folded orclosed a slit or opening shall be on the outside, as hereinafterdescribed and shown.

The object of my improvement is to afford a means whereby the wrapper orenvelop may be easily and readily removed by inserting a pencil, thefinger, or any instrument into the slit or opening and tearing away theWrapper without the liability of injuring or marring the contents, theslip or opening affording a convenient place to secure a purchase on thewrapper for the purpose of tearing it.

In the drawings, Figures l, 2, 3, and 4 represent forms of the slits oropenings in the wrapper, and Figs. 5 and 6 represent the wrapper when inuse. Y

Fig. l represents a wrapper provided with an oval or circular opening A,located a short distance below the gummed edge. When the paper,magazine, catalogue, dac., is inolosed in the wrapper, the opening A ison the outside, and by the process of folding is solocated that anotherfold of the wrapper intervenes between the opening and the contents,thus protecting the contents from exposure or from being soiled. Insteadof the oval or circular opening I may use a slit, as shown in Fig. 2, inthe same relative position in the wrapper.

Figs. 3 and t represent wrappers which are provided with scallopededges, the scallops extending downward, and at their meetingpointvertical slits B are formed. The outer edge only of the wrapper isprovided with mucilage, the inner edges of the slits being left loose,affording a purchase for the purpose of tearing the wrapper.

Figs. 5 and 6 represent the wrappers when in use and also illustrate theposition of the openings or slits when the Wrapper is folded.

Contiguous to the opening or slit may be printed instructions, asindicated in the drawings.

IIeretofore articles, such as papers, &G., inclosed in wrappers haveoften been torn or injured. in the attempt to remove the wrapper,because the wrapper adhered so closely to the contents that noconvenient space was provided in which to insert a pencil, knife, orother instrument by which the wrapper could be torn or removed.

By my invention I aord a ready and convenient means, as hereinbeforedescribed, of tearing and removing the envelop or wrapper, and as alower fold is beneath the slit or opening in the wrapper the contentsare in no wise exposed, and thus the liability of injuring the contentsis greatly lessened.

l. A paper-wrapper provided with a scallop in its loose gummed edge,said scallop eX- tending so as to form a slit or slits having ungummededges, and being so located as to be in the exterior fold when thewrapper is in use, so that the wrapper may be removed without injury tothe contents, substantially as shown and described.

2. An envelop or wrapper for papers or the like, consisting of two ormore folds, the inner fold or folds being imperforate beneath the slitor opening of the outer fold whereby the contents are in no wiseexposed, and the liability of inj uring the contents is lessened.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of twowitnesses, this 27th day of November, 1895.

JOHN 'MoooNNELn Witnesses:

L. WARD HOOVER, ELLA E. TILDEN.

